This one is really confusing me, so I would appreciate some feedback. In the GED class I go to Monday through Thursday from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, we have a daily activity at 11:00 AM that involves correcting two sentences from a booklet the instructor that's in charge of the activity has that shows the incorrect forms and their corrections and then some math. These were our sentences on Wednesday, in the incorrect forms: she could of ran faster but she had tore one of her shoes consequently the race was lost by her to be able to complete there jobs both ruth and bernice the two who are sophomores this year will have a months extension Here's how I corrected them, with the booklet's corrections in bold: She could have ran faster, but she had torn one of her shoes; consequently, the race was lost by her. [She could have run faster, but she had torn one of her shoes; consequently, she lost the race.] To be able to complete their jobs, both Ruth and Bernice, the two who are sophomores this year, will have a month's extension. [To be able to complete their jobs, both Ruth and Bernice, who are sophomores this year, will have a month's extension.]
Ran implies it's a past action. Run implies it's an action that's currently taking place or will take place in the future. Example; I ran to the store for milk. I'm running to the store for milk. I'm going to run to the store for milk.
But doesn't could have imply it was in the past? "She could have run (present / future) / ran (past) faster, but she tore her shows and therefore lost the race."
Has/Have must be followed by the past participle of a verb to form the present perfect, which is used here. The past participle for run is, well, run. You don't say "He has took..." but rather "He has taken...". A Google search could've cleared this up.
This was originally in The Spam Zone, and then I asked Plums if it was Discussion-worthy; he agreed that it was and moved it. Anyway, I'm only more confused. Ran is the past form of run, so if that's the case, "She could have ran to the store faster, but something stopped her" would be correct, but it's not -- "run" is correct. However, aren't "could have," "would have," and other similar things talking about the past?
Couldn't you have asked your teacher to clear this up? Anyways, while the past tense of the word run is ran, for the perfect and pluperfect tenses (i.e. when the words have or had, are in front), it goes back to run. Here's a link to the table of tenses for run In the second sentence, they just needed you to remove a few extra words that weren't really needed, plus they made the sentence a little clunky. It was a bit of a dick move from them (unless you were told that you could remove words too), I suppose.
Yeah, word removal is one of the corrections we can make, and we don't all correct the sentences the same way.
